At least one oddsmaker likes LSU coach Ed Orgeron and the Tigers in 2017.

SportsBettingDime.com lists LSU among its national championship contenders and Orgeron as the first-year head coach to have the most success.

LSU is given 16-1 odds to win college football's national championship. The Tigers are given the seventh-best odds by SportsBettingDime.com. Alabama is the favorite at 3-1 followed by Ohio State (15-2), USC (15-2), Florida State (8-1), Oklahoma (10-1) and Michigan (14-1).

LSU's odds of making the College Football Playoff are the sixth-best according to SportsBettingDime.com. The Tigers have 4-1 odds of making the CFP. Alabama tops the list at 2-5 odds followed by Ohio State (3-2), Oklahoma (5-2) and Florida State (5-2) and USC (3-1).

While Alabama is given 2-3 odds of winning the SEC, LSU is second at 5-1.

Orgeron, though, is given 4-1 odds to finish with the highest ranking, tying Minnesota's P.J. Fleck for the best odds in that category.

Running back Derrius Guice has 14-1 odds to win the Heisman Trophy, tying for sixth-best along with Alabama running back Bo Scarborough. USC quarterback Sam Darnold has the best odds at 11-4 followed by Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield (15-2), Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson (8-1), Ohio State quarterback JT Barrett (9-1) and Penn State running back Saquon Barkley (9-1).

SportsBettingDime.com likes Guice. The oddsmaker set the over/under on rushing touchdowns by Guice this season at 17.5.

Not all the odds are good news for LSU fans.

The odds of Nick Saban coaching in the NFL in 2018 is set at 49-1.

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